generated: '2026-08-19'
method: derived
source: openapi/anu-quantum-numbers-openapi.yml
x-operator: institution
note: >-
  Vocabulary DERIVED by API Evangelist from ANU's own documented parameters, its live OAI-PMH
  responses and its published SAML metadata. ANU publishes no vocabulary, glossary or data
  dictionary of its own. Terms belonging to ANU's vendors are excluded — the Elsevier Pure
  portal at researchportalplus.anu.edu.au has a rich vocabulary and none of it is ANU's.
terms:
- term: uint8
  surface: quantum-numbers
  definition: Data type returning unsigned 8-bit integers, values 0-255.
  source: https://quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au/documentation
- term: uint16
  surface: quantum-numbers
  definition: Data type returning unsigned 16-bit integers, values 0-65535.
  source: https://quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au/documentation
- term: hex8
  surface: quantum-numbers
  definition: Data type returning hexadecimal characters between 00 and ff. AQN service only.
  source: https://quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au/documentation
- term: hex16
  surface: quantum-numbers
  definition: Data type returning hexadecimal characters between 0000 and ffff.
  source: https://quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au/documentation
- term: block size
  parameter: size
  surface: quantum-numbers
  definition: Number of bytes in each returned hexadecimal block. 1-10 on AQN, documented 1-1024 on the legacy endpoint.
  source: https://quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au/documentation
- term: array length
  parameter: length
  surface: quantum-numbers
  definition: Number of values returned in a single call. 1-1024.
  source: https://quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au/documentation
- term: verb
  surface: oai-pmh
  definition: The OAI-PMH operation selector. One of Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets, ListIdentifiers, ListRecords, GetRecord.
  source: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- term: metadataPrefix
  surface: oai-pmh
  definition: >-
    Format in which records are disseminated. ANU Open Research supports oai_dc, qdc, mods,
    mets, didl, ore, rdf, marc, xoai, dim, etdms and uketd_dc.
  source: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
- term: resumptionToken
  surface: oai-pmh
  definition: Continuation token for paging through an incomplete list response.
  source: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- term: OAI identifier
  surface: oai-pmh
  definition: 'Record identifier scheme for this repository: oai:openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au:1885/<id>. The 1885 handle prefix is ANU''s.'
  source: https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/oai/request?verb=Identify
- term: entityID
  surface: identity-federation
  definition: 'SAML entity identifier for ANU''s identity provider: https://idp2.anu.edu.au/idp/shibboleth'
  source: https://idp2.anu.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
- term: scope
  surface: identity-federation
  definition: >-
    The shibmd:Scope asserted by the ANU IdP — anu.edu.au. Scoped attributes issued to
    federation partners are suffixed with it (e.g. eduPersonScopedAffiliation).
  source: https://idp2.anu.edu.au/idp/shibboleth
- term: AAF
  surface: identity-federation
  definition: >-
    Australian Access Federation — the national SAML federation ANU belongs to, whose
    aggregate metadata carries three ANU entities. AAF is an eduGAIN participant.
  source: https://md.aaf.edu.au/aaf-metadata.xml
- term: '10.25911'
  surface: research-data
  definition: ANU's DataCite DOI prefix, held by repository client anu.repo under provider anu. 25,559 DOIs registered.
  source: https://api.datacite.org/prefixes/10.25911